In Southern Sudan, A Drive to Update The Image of Cows »
Posted By dexlovex2 1 year, 11 months ago in NewsGovernment workers attempt to undo traditional communal thinking about cows and replace it, slowly, with a more profit-driven, market-oriented mentality. The effort is intended to help transform southern Sudan, a region still recovering from 21 years of civil war, into the Argentina of Africa - a cattle-processing, beef-exporting machine.
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I hate to be serious for a minute, but are you guys familiar with the "tragedy of the commons". When it comes to grazing on common land a free market model isn't the way to go. If every individual herdsman just tries to make us much as he can the land will suffer and ultimately everyone loses out. Check it out on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_com...
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